We performed a comparison between Alfresco and OpenText Extended ECM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"Simplicity to roll out, features available, customization options."
"We use Core Share to share documents with external auditors or with vendors, and that prevents them from being able to get into the whole system. It is useful."
"Smart Viewing videos are most valuable for the end users. The end users like the look and feel of Smart View. It's similar to SharePoint, with the latest HTML5 features, filters, and everything. It's like online shopping."
"Scalability is great. We can extend areas horizontally and vertically."
"Being able to search is valuable. Its search is pretty powerful. We are able to search for specific text, and it points us to the document that has that text. That is pretty powerful."
"The ability to add metadata and use that to categorize information is a valuable feature of OpenText Extended ECM."
"It's a very good solution."
"The solution's automatic document numbering, state management, and process flow are very useful features to go through the full cycle of the document."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"The solution needs to improve the user interface."
"Initially there can be stability issues due to unknown factors such as usage of the system, quantity of documents ingested, load during peak hours."
"Pricing could be improved and the stability or the performance needs improvement, which is very important."
"There are no additional features that I would like to see. I am pretty happy with it, but their support could be a bit better."
"OpenText Extended ECM's user interface could be improved."
"We are looking for new, advanced UI features. Currently, the UI does not look great."
"The solution's performance, stability, and consistency could be improved."
"The annotation tool needs improvement. In other tools, such as Hyland OnBase, you can easily do annotation. You can easily merge documents. You can easily compare documents, whereas with OpenText, it seems to be a challenge."
Alfresco is ranked 9th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while OpenText Extended ECM is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Content Management with 18 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while OpenText Extended ECM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Extended ECM writes "Serves as a single source of support for the company but has scalability issues". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet and Nuxeo, whereas OpenText Extended ECM is most compared with OpenText Documentum, SharePoint, IBM FileNet, OpenText Content Manager and Hyland OnBase.
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